Improvement in fastening pocket-openings



v.I. W. DAVIS'.

Fastening Pocket-Openings.

No. 139,121. s PatentedMay20,1873.

a 1 v \1 I Inventor \Vitnesses AM, FHOTD-UTHOGRAPHIC c0v 1w (osaonws'sPROCESS} UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB W. DAVIS, OF RENO, NEVADA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND LEVI STRAUSS &COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENING POCKET-OPENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,121, dated May 20,1873 application filed August 9, 1872.

To all whom at may concern Be it known that I, JACOB W. DAVIS, of Reno,county of Washoe and State of Nevada, have invented an Improvement inFastening Scams; and I do hereby declare the following description andaccompanying drawing are sutficient to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use mysaid invention or improvement without further invention or experiment;

My invention relates to a fastening for pocket-openings, whereby; thesewed seams are prevented from ripping or starting from frequentpressure or strain thereon; and it consists in the employment of a metalrivet or eyelet at each edge of the pocket-opening, to prevent therippingof the seam at those points. The rivet or eyelet is so fastenedin the seam as to bind the two parts of cloth which the seam unitestogether, so that it shall prevent the strain or pressure from comingupon the thread with which the seam is sewed.

In order to more fully illustrate and explain my invention, reference ishad to the accompanying drawing, in which my invention is represented asapplied to the pockets of a pair of pants.

Figure 1 is a view of my invention as applied to pants.

A is the side seam in a pair of pants, drawers, or other article ofwearing apparel, which terminates at the pockets; and b b represent therivets at each edge of the pocket opening. The seams are usually rippedor started by the placing of the hands in the pockets and the consequentpressure or strain upon them. To strengthen this part I employ a rivet,eyelet, or other equivalent meta-l stud, b, which I pass through a holeat the end of the seam, so as to bind the two parts of cloth together,and then head'it down upon both sides so as to firmly unite the twoparts. which already have one head are used, it is only necessary tohead the opposite end, and

a washer can be interposed, if desired, in the usual way. By this meansI avoid a large amount oftrouble in mending portions of seams which aresubjected to constant strain.

I am aware that rivets have been used for securing seams in shoes, asshown in the patents to Geo. Houghton, No; 6i,0l5, April 23, 1867, andto L. K. Washburn, No. 123,313,

January 30, 1572; and hence I do not claim, 1

When rivets

